But don't think that's all there is to me!
I love doodling, to the extent that I've gotten in trouble for doing so. Most of my doodles start off with a letter or phrase and I draw around them. I guess I'm quite creative.
I also love cupcakes. Maybe love is an understatement. I adore cupcakes. Most of the presents I've gotten lately involve cupcakes: an apron, slippers, candles, a luggage tag, pajamas. I suppose you could say I'm addicted to them. Eating them is another matter altogether. School takes up most of my time, so making cupcakes is extremely low on my priority list. I promised myself that I would bake once a week, but that's not happening. During this past semester, I rarely baked at all!
I've gotten into crocheting lately, and have made a koala bear and a wolf. I'm in the process of making myself a unicorn hat.
I am interested in singing, writing and laughing. I like blue and purple, and silver and gold, and anything that sparkles and has glitter.
Music suggestions: Emilie Autumn, Cinema Bizarre, The Wanted, and Taylor Swift.
Book suggestion: Ireland, by Frank Delaney.
Movie suggestions: Sydney White, Mamma Mia, Easy A, and Wild Child.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is known for its period rooms; an 18th century dining room from London and a living room designed by Frank Lloyd Wright are just a few examples of the many rooms on display there. They’re meant to show “how people lived”, even though the rooms are usually empty of actual people (well, unless you count the museum visitors who sometimes get to step into them). These so-called “authentic” presentations of decorative arts and architecture are time capsules of a particular place and time, showing how society’s tastes have changed over the years. But what about a whole museum dedicated to them? London’s Geffrye Museum, which specialises in the history of the English domestic interior, has a permanent display of eleven period rooms from 1630 to the present. They are presented chronologically, with a short introduction summarising the typical town house of the time, the type of furniture and furnishings used, and the possible occupations of the owners. Visitors can see a parlour from 1745 and loft-style apartment from the 1990s. There are even some eighteenth and nineteenth-century almshouse rooms on display, showing the building that currently houses the museum in its original form, which was as an accommodation for the poor.
